Thread: Defence Estates/Housing Information Centre

Tell me again why they exist?
Why aren't the managers speaking to the applicants? Temping call centre staff telling me utter rubbish!

DE - they march you in and ignore all the faults and the minging state of the place, then march you out and charge you for it all.

HIC - they allocate the cackest quarter and then refuse to answer the phone.

They're there for the sole purpose of boosting the 'counselling' industry. There's no useful purpose for them and frankly they should be herded into a collective group and whisked to the offices of MHS where they can all be utter shoite together.

Just my opinion of course and doesn't count for much!

I think it's an evil ploy and usage of distraction technique...

Distraction in the way that they DRIVE you to distraction....eejits

:evil:

Originally Posted by bodger

DE - they march you in and ignore all the faults and the minging state of the place, then march you out and charge you for it all.

Yep, they charge you and then don't even do the work needed...they march the next lot in and it begins again!

B@stards.

Originally Posted by mingmong

Originally Posted by bodger

DE - they march you in and ignore all the faults and the minging state of the place, then march you out and charge you for it all.

Yep, they charge you and then don't even do the work needed...they march the next lot in and it begins again!

B@stards.

Hmmm, in one quarter I had a teeny weeny red wine stain on the living room carpet. Lovely DE man decided that they needed a whole new carpet for that and so charged us for it. Seeing as they were putting a whole new carpet in I asked if I could take the old one with me (not that I wanted it you understand, just trying to bluff him - unsuccessfully). Funnily enough that's not allowed. That'd be because they're not going to put a new sodding carpet in.

I should have realised what was happening when he tipped up wearing a mask and carrying a bag marked swag.

dont suppose anyone has any pics of housing in larkhill? xx

Originally Posted by lippichik_24

dont suppose anyone has any pics of housing in larkhill? xx

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/336797

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/489540

Originally Posted by bootifull

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/489540

We live in one of those...

Booty's top link are truly awful houses...

Defence Estates. Well, where to begin? Sod that, I'll get straight to the juicy bit. They were going to kick us out of our SFA as OH is posted to NI and I have been posted to Bulford. Brilliant but that's life in a green suit. They say we cannot extend as the SFA is in his name ergo I will have to take on SFA. Problem: I am not allowed this SFA due to my rank.

Cue OH writing to DE asking for some common sense: we want to retain the SFA for a mere 12 months. Reply from DE sends him to around 20000 ft: it's rude and frankly offensive. He's a simple lad but manners cost nothing. He unleashes absolute hell on HIC Warminster, including a personal letter to the Garrison Commander (in really frightening officer speak!), a letter to the AFF and best of all - a letter to our MP. Then we just sat back and waited for the inevitable. In our defence, we did warn them it was incoming...

We found out this morning that we can keep our SFA. Surprise, surprise: it took 6 working days to resolve. What pisses me off (and OH, to be fair) is that he can do this as he has worked in MoD and knows what levers to pull and push. Young Private Smith doesn't and relies on the CoC: woe betide if you get someone who doesn't care.

We have heard through the G1 grapevine (OH is best mates with the relevant SO2) that the head DE wumman is drafting a grovelling letter of apology after the Garrison Commander 'requested' it to show good faith. OH has plans for that letter....

In summary: never let DE get away with anything. They are a Government agency and as such are extremely controllable.

If anyone would like sanitised examples of letters for your own campaigns, please ask!

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Good news for the "Darthette" household!

We have had major battles in obtaining SFA within SPTA but thankfully I have many, many contacts within the MoD.....this comes with being old!

If DE give you the runaround contact AFF Housing.

DE don't know their gluteous maximus from their humerus
:evil:

I actually had a person turn up - in green uniform so I reckon I'm usually pretty safe - asking "do you live here?" as I stood at my back door...

"errr...yes! for quite some time now and we're not moving so...."

Poor person had been trawling for a house as DE told him "Oh no, those houses are all empty..."

:?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?:

Empty? They've all been occupied for as long as I've been here - and before. What the hell? They were actually going to try and give said personage OUR house to move into in the next couple of months. :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil:

That'd be nice... :roll: wake up one morning to find a removal van and a family of 4 (possibly with cats for our doggies to munch on) opening our front door.

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Hi,

I am about to face up to DE. May I have copies of the letters you sent ? Sanitised as necessary...

Thanks